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Plate: the Balloon Ascent of Jean-Pierre Blanchard
Production:
Unidentified Lambeth Pottery
(Possibly)
Pottery:
Mortlake Pottery
(Possibly)
Pottery:
Isleworth Pottery
(Possibly)
Tin-glazed earthenware depicting the balloon ascent of Jean-Pierre Blanchard. Showing two men seated in a distinctive 'gondola' drifting over a landscape with hills, trees, houses and a lake painted in blue. The blue panels in the border have sgraffito decoration.
Greenish blue glaze, over a buff body.
History note: Mr Richards, Nottingham, from whom purchased for £2.10s.0d. on 5 November 1907 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRs, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 23.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Late
George III
Circa
1784
CE
-
1786
CE
The ascent may be that of Jean-Pierre Blanchard, in 1785. Some of his flights took place from Stockwell Road, South Lambeth.
This plate could have been made at Lambeth, Mortlake or Isleworth at the date of its production
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue from cobalt)
buff
Earthenware
greenish-bluish white
Tin-glaze
Press-moulding
: Buff earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed greenish-bluish white, and painted in blue
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.1561-1928
Primary reference Number: 72223
Old object number: 2671
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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